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cooped up

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Life now revolves around the issue of being cooped up at home as it never did before.

Why have I never heard until the day before yesterday of your suffering yourself to be cooped up in jail?

I'd much rather see what is going on than be cooped up below, and after lunch I told Bob I was going up on deck.

When Charleston was taken by the British, the Boston was one of the vessels cooped up there and lost.

Still, you must feel rather cooped up there sometimes, after Stannesley; was not that the Denisons' place?

"This is really much better than being cooped up in the old woman's backyard," he reflected.

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On this page you'll find 157 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to coop up, such as: repress, suppress, box up, bring to naught, check, and collar.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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